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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-100 / C-130 Hercules
    Latest Model:C-130A-45-LM Hercules
    Last Military Serial:57-0453 USAF
    Construction Number:3160
    Compressed ID:Lockheed C-130A-45-LM sn 57-0453 US...
    Latest Owner or Location:70 ISRW/LG, Fort Meade, MD

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a C-130A-45-LM by Lockheed at Marietta, GA.

    Circa 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 57-0453.

    20 July 1991


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: C-130A Hercules of 155th Tactical Airlift Squadron Tennessee ANG on display at the 1991 International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire. Markings worn: Nite Train to Memphis

    9 December 1991

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number CF0102.

    Restored.
    Transferred from storage for restoration.

    Restored.
    Restored to represent 56-528, a C-130A-8-LM, which was shot down over Soveit Armenia on 2 September 1958.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to 70 ISRW/LG, Fort Meade, MD.

    By 3 August 1997

    Contracted to National Vigilance Park, Fort Meade, Baltimore, MD for work on the airframe.
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    31 July 2006


    Photographer: David Lednicer
    Notes: This is actually 57-0453, painted to represent 56-0528, which was shot down by Soviet MiG-17s near Sasnashen, Armenia on September 2nd 1958, while it was on a Sun Valley intelligence gathering mission. On display in the National Vigilance Park, at the National Security Agency, Fort Meade, Maryland

    By 2007

    Markings Applied: U.S. AIR FORCE, 60528

    2007


    Photographer: Andy West


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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden
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     National Museum of the United States Air Force
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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